Combined pad-buckle and trace-carrier



(No Model.)

0. MALLORY. COMBINED PAD BUCKLE AND TRACE CARRIER.

No. 320,569. Patented June 23,1885.-

' pad-buckle and trace-carrier.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC OGDEN MALLORY, OF AUBURN, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINED PAD-BUCKLE AND TRACE-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,569, dated June 23, 1885.

Application filed March 9, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OGDEN IVIALLORY, of Auburn, county of Placer, and State of California, have invented an Improvement in Oombined Pad-Buckle and Trace-Carrier; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to an improved padbuckle and trace-carrier for harness; and it consists in the combination of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my combined Fig. 2 shows its application. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of same. Fig. 4 is a modified form.

Ais the pad buckle, and B the trace-carrier. The former consists of a rectangular buckleframe, (1, across the center of which is abody bar or piece, a. This piece does not lie in the same plane as the frame, but is depressed by reason of having outwardly-turned or angular ends, which join the frame. It is pro vided with a tongue,a for engaging the pad or saddle strap.

The trace-carrier consists of a base-piece, b, joining at one end the frame a of the buckle, and having at its other end an inwardly-inclined loop, b, and on its outer or front surface the bent piece b forming aplain loop, I).

C is the pad-strap. This passes behind the end bar of frame a, over the depressed center a, engaging its tongue a behind the basepiece I) and through loop I). It will thus be seen that the course of strap 0 is practically a straight one, the advantage of which is in preventing anybending or kinking, which has a tendency to wear the strap, and also to make the harness lie more snugly.

Dis the trace,which passes through the loop I), and d is a loop on said trace for a breeching-strap, when such is used.

A modification of the device is shown in Fig. 4, where the trace-carrier B is united with an ordinary buckle. In this case the loop I) on the tracecarrier is straight and receives the billet e of the belly-strap. The billet of the pad or saddle strap does not pass through the loop b, but through a keeper, 6', on the inner side of the billet e. quired to keep the pad-strap as straight as possible.

In Figs. 2 and 3 the billet of the pad-strap, after passing through loop I), is to be connected with the billet of the belly-strap by any ordinary buckle; or, as is obvious, for one side of the harness it may be extended or continued to form the belly-strap; or,again,the strap 0 may be considered as the belly-strap for one side of the harness, or the billet of said strap for the other side, and may be connected with a short pad-strap above the trace-carrier and buckle.

As my invention consists, broadly, in the union of a pad-strap buckle with a trace-carrier, I do not wish to confine myself to the precise construction of the particular buckle herein described,with the particulartrace-carrier, for, as is shown in Fig. 4, an ordinary buckle may be used with the tracecarrier, and, as is obvious, the particular buckle or a common buckle may be used with any other form of trace-carrier, a loop, or even a buckle device, behind which, on account of the depressed center of the buckle, the pad-strap is adapted to pass in an approximately straight course? Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- As an improved article of manufacture,a combined pad-strap buckle and trace-carrier, consisting of the buckle A, having a frame, (1., and a depressed transverse center piece, a, with a tongue, a and the tracecarrier B, having a base-piece, I), connected with and in the same plane as the frame of the buckle, an inwardly-inclined end loop, b, and a front piece, I)", bent to form a plain loop, I), substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

OGDEI M ALLORY.-

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